How to format your references using the Acoustics Australia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acoustics Australia. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Kouwenhoven, L.: One photon seen by one electron. Nature. 403, 374–375 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Person, A.L., Raman, I.M.: Purkinje neuron synchrony elicits time-locked spiking in the cerebellar nuclei. Nature. 481, 502–505 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Grassly, N.C., Fraser, C., Garnett, G.P.: Host immunity and synchronized epidemics of syphilis across the United States. Nature. 433, 417–421 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Abaci, H.E., Shen, Y.-I., Tan, S., Gerecht, S.: Recapitulating physiological and pathological shear stress and oxygen to model vasculature in health and disease. Sci. Rep. 4, 4951 (2014)

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Hecht, J.: Understanding Lasers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2008)

An edited book

Bradley, P. ed: Food, Media and Contemporary Culture: The Edible Image. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Schneeweiss, O., Voleník, K.: Analysis of powder particles of high carbon cast iron after air plasma spraying. In: Kuzmann, E. and Lázár, K. (eds.) ISIAME 2008: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ISIAME 2008) held in Budapest, Hungary, 17–22 August 2008. pp. 39–44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Acoustics Australia.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Vomiting Machine Shows How Viruses Spread Through The Air, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vomiting-machine-shows-how-viruses-spread-through-air/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office: Aircraft Maintenance: FAA Needs to Follow Through on Plans to Ensure the Safety of Aging Aircraft. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1993)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Winton, T.W.: Student and Teacher Perceptions of Standards-based Grading and Student Performance, (2015)

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kwai, I.: Citizenship Costs Senator In Australia Her Position, (2017)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Acoustics Australia
Abbreviation	Acoust. Aust.
ISSN (print)	0814-6039
ISSN (online)	1839-2571
Scope